My Health

It’s no secret to anyone that knows me, or has even just met me, that I’m not exactly in the best physical shape… To put it bluntly, I’m overweight. Not massively overweight, but enough to make a difference, sometimes making physical tasks a bit harder than they should be. I lost a fair bit of weight after my Leaving Cert, thanks to working in a factory, then Penney’s, so I got some exercise during work, but then I got a job in an internet café. Worse possible job for my health! 12 hour shift, and nothing available to eat and drink but crap from a vending machine. Anyway, I should’ve realised at the time that that was going to be a problem, and done things to keep a somewhat healthy lifestyle, but I didn’t, and eventually ended up back at square one. Then came college, where I feel victim to the typical student diet of take away and simple to cook unhealthy food. So one of my goals is to get into a healthy lifestyle, and lose weight. So, here’s my first request: Can anybody give me a source for simple to cook dinners for someone who would somehow manage to burn Corn Flakes when getting my breakfast and has a pretty fussy taste? (Ok, I’m not really THAT bad at cooking, but you get the idea – it’s far from my strong point.)

My Sleeping Pattern

There’s only one way to describe my sleeping pattern of last year, and that is screwed up. (Well, actually, there’s plenty of ways I could have described, I just decided to go for a less offensive way ) I’d stay up as late as 4am, for absolutely no reason, often completely on my own, with class just 5 hours later, and I’d generally then miss that class. I could’ve done better in class if I got a grip of my sleeping pattern. I guess it’s not really something I can get help with, it’s just a matter of me copping on and going to bed at a decent hour. And in turn, that would help my health to a certain extent.

Time Management

Ok, this has been a major problem all my life. I always leave things to the last minute. Maybe it’s coz I need that sense of panic to get the creative juices flowing, but in fairness, I shouldn’t need that. I should be able to break up work into sections and goals and spread it out over time. Everyone should be able to do that, right? Timetabling work hasn’t really been something I’ve tried before, and I don’t know if I will try that approach, coz there’s times where I just freeze, and end up doing a half-assed job, because I can’t think properly, and does anyone really know what they’re gonna be doing at 8pm the next day in college? I know I wouldn’t. How do you do it? How do you eliminate distractions, and focus on the goal at hand? It seems like it should be so simple, but it’s not, and I’m gonna put up my hand and say I need help with it.

And the rest…

There’s lots of other little things, but they all tie into the above three. Once they improve, the rest should fall into place. All of it seems like common sense, and maybe all I need to do is stop and think about what I’m doing, and what I should be doing. It’s not rocket science, but it ain’t easy either, so I’m opening the floor in the comments to any tips anyone has for putting structure in my life, and getting things done the way they should.

Now to see if I actually get any comments…
On a side note, I should really finish this design. Comments are the one thing I didn’t touch at all yet…

Over the last year I really lost interest in games, bar the occasional game of Rock Band, Guitar Hero, or Street Fighter. But my interest in web dev has increased. Despite the web end of my first year was actually very boring for me, through a combination of a boring lecturer, and knowing pretty much the entire class for the year before even starting.

Requirements was simply a pain in the ass, Communications was kinda pointless, Web Tech was slow and boring, as was Digital Media, Software was alright, nothing much new, but still a sorta fun, and Maths and Physics was good, but a bit hard…

As for the social side of it I made some great friends who I hope to keep in the coming years. Some were in final year, so I may not see them much, but I will try keep in touch one way or another. And they better damn well visit

Anyway, I had good fun. Some things were a struggle, while others were a breeze. But all in all I’m looking forward to next year, and the rest of my college term.

It’s been nearly a year since I bought my iPhone. At first it was all just a novelty, and it was never actually used as anything more than a music playing phone. I never even used Safari thanks to lack of a decent connection at home. But then along came 2.0. And… Well, nothing really… It was still the same deal, just more novelties, which were quickly tossed to the end screen. But recently I’ve finally started using it to it’s proper potential. I use Tweetie to keep up with Twitter, hopping to the Facebook app to check out any activity there, use the WordPress app to start some posts, or just use Safari to look up some information. And that’s just the beginning.

But now my attention is drawn to developing iPhone apps. So, the first thing I did was look into installing Mac on my PC. No go, neither graphics card or wireless would work right. So then I decided I would take the step over to “the dark side”. I stuck some ads on my Bebo apps a while back and they’re slowly but surely building up money. So the plan is simple, sell my laptop, combine that money with my ads money, maybe chip in some cash from my pocket, and buy a MacBook. I’m a gamer, so I shall be using Boot Camp, and sticking Windows on there.

The amazing thing about it though, is that the iPhone alone has influenced me to get a MacBook. I had no intention of switching before now. And now that I’ve read the spec and properly looked at the thing, I’m won over. All that’s left is to choose between the white one, or the lowest end aluminium one. My heart is set on the aluminium one, due frankly to it’s appearance.

Also, anyone interested in buying an Acer laptop, Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz, 2GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HDD, nVidia Geforce Go 7300, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g, with Vista Premium (I’ll toss in a bluetooth adapter too ), drop me a line (preferably by email). Contact details here.

That’s my blog post done for the month now! But seriously, gotta get back into this.